Brentwood man slain; two arrested: Two men have been arrested in connection with a shooting that killed a 20-year-old Brentwood man Sunday night, police said.

The suspects, both Antioch residents, were arrested at 3 a.m. Monday morning, a few hours after Curtis Pounds was found fatally wounded in the 800 block of West Eighth Street, said Antioch police Lt. Leonard Orman.

Residents reported hearing shots fired about 10:45 p.m. Emergency personnel arrived at the scene soon after but were only able to pronounce Pounds dead.

Police were withholding the names of the suspects Monday. Orman said they are about the same age as Pounds and knew him from encounters at a home on Fourth Street known for drug activity.

This is Antioch’s third homicide of 2008. At the same time last year, five Antioch homicides had been investigated.

Anyone with information about Sunday’s killing can contact Antioch police at 925-778-2441 or detectives at 925-779-6933.

— Robert Salonga

Walnut Creek

council to discuss development and parking: The Walnut Creek City Council will discuss the sale of its former veterans building parcel and valet parking for proposed medical offices tonight.

The City Council, acting as the Redevelopment Agency, intends to sell the site at 1250 Locust St. to BH Development for $4.1 million, paving the way for a retail project consisting of four one- to three-stories buildings that would include office or residential space above shops and restaurants. BH Development anticipates breaking ground on the project in 2011 and completing it by 2013.

The council will also discuss the use of valet parking for proposed medical offices at 590 Ygnacio Valley Road. The Planning Commission agreed that valet parking on the 1.3-acre site would not severely impede traffic or pedestrian circulation, but this decision has been appealed to the council.

The meeting is at 7 p.m. in the council chamber, 1666 N. Main St. Information is at 925-943-5818.

The robbery was reported about 1:40 p.m. at the Nordstrom store in the 1200 block of Broadway Plaza, police said. Witnesses told police a man entered the store, grabbed a purse display and ran outside.

Store security personnel ran after the man and confronted him, at which point the robber brandished a knife, police said. The man got into a late-1980s to early-1990s Toyota Corolla and fled southbound on Broadway.

No one was injured. A police search of the area did not find the robber, who is described as a black man in his mid-20s, 6 feet tall, 180 pounds, with a goatee and wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and bluejeans.

Anyone with information can contact Walnut Creek police at 925-943-5844.

— Robert Salonga

Pleasant Hill

Suspects may have committed other break-ins: Two men arrested on suspicion of breaking into a car Monday morning may be responsible for as many as eight other auto burglaries, police said.

Police responded to the sounds of a car alarm about 6:30 a.m. on Elliott Drive and found a car with its windows smashed. Officers searching the area spotted two men on the Contra Costa Canal trail and gave chase.

The men began climbing fences to elude officers, but they were eventually caught and arrested. Alberto Madrid, 24, of Bay Point, was booked into County Jail and is being held on $67,000 bail. Cole Raymond Norton, a 24-year-old Concord resident, is being held on $40,000 bail.

Police said the two were found with property stolen from the car on Elliott Drive, and are investigating whether they committed several other car burglaries in the area around the same time.

Anyone with information about the car burglaries can contact Pleasant Hill police at 925-288-4600.

Otto Warmbier was arrested in January 2016 at the end of a brief tourist visit to North Korea. He had been medically evacuated and was being treated at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center when he died at age 22.